Saturday, August 29, 2009

Minneapolis Duathon Preview

Sunday (8/30) is the inaugural Minneapolis Duathlon. Touted as an urban race, it will take participanta through the heart of Minneapolis.

The race is a 5K run, 18 mile bike and 5K run. The running portions take us from downtown Minneapolis, across the Mississippi River, onto Nicollet Island, and back to downtown. The bike travels down West River Parkway and back. West River Parkway will be completely shut down for the race.

If you do get to the race to watch, look for bib number 1055. I'll be wearing my racing orange. And also cheer on my freshman college roomie, Bill Poganski wearing bib 1072.

I'll also be looking to greet Nick Gervino (wearing bib 1028). Nick won the North Dakota Boy's Class A XC title in high school in 1978 (our senior year) for rival Valley City while the mighty Blue Jays of Jamestown (my school) took the team state title for the second straight year. I'm sure Nick can still kick my ass.

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With the lack of training I've been enduring lately, I'll be happy with times around 31:00 for the first 5K, 1:10:00 for the bike (on my slow 10 speed thats 20+ years old) and 33:00 for the final 5K. Thankfully it will be cool temps but it should be fun none the less. We'll see how my legs hold out.